-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CfP: Bodynets 2014 - Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2014 - London (UK) Datum: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 13:18:14 +0100 Von: Enrico Natalizio enatalizio@DEIS.UNICAL.IT Antwort an: Enrico Natalizio enatalizio@DEIS.UNICAL.IT An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

*************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks BODYNETS 2014 29 September - 1 October 2014 London, Great Britain ***************************************************

SCOPE BodyNets 2014 aims to provide a world-leading and unique opportunity for bringing together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines to plan, analyze, design, build, deploy and experiment with/on body area networks (BANs).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Guang-Zhong Yang (Imperial College London) Antonio Liotta (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) Mischa Dohler (King's College London)

TOPICS We are soliciting high-quality original papers in the following topics (but not limited to): 1. Wearable Computing - Ambient intelligence - Pervasive user interface - Context and situation awareness - Augmented reality - Sensory augmentation - Motion detection and activity recognition - User modeling and personalization 2 Embedded Devices and Medical Applications - High-confidence medical devices - Integration of medical devices with healthcare systems - Medical device plug-and-play - Assistive technologies for independent aging - Pervasive health care and patient monitoring - New medical diagnostics and treatments - Ambient assisted living - Virtual hospitals 3. Communications and Networking - Various types of BANs; e.g, in-body, on-body and around-body networks - Signal/information processing and communication models in BANs - BAN architectures and protocols - Power-efficient communications - Wireless energy transfer - Delay-tolerance, fault-tolerance and reliability in BANs - Cloud computing and BANs - Cognitive networks for medical bands 4. Systems and Applications - Sensing and actuation in BANs - Software engineering and systems engineering for BANs - Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments - Design and performance issues - Tools, testbeds and deployment issues - Wireless-to-bio interface/transduction - Standardization

Application domains include, but not limited to, biomedical engineering, computer vision, defense, entertainment (e.g. computer games), human computer interaction, industrial design, interactive arts, Internet of things, logistics and transportation, smart buildings, physiological monitoring, prosthetics, robotics, smart garments, sports science, and vehicular networks. In addition to the main track that covers general/mainstream topics, the BodyNets 2014 technical program will feature a series of special tracks and a couple of workshops that will focus on specific/emerging topics.

Important dates Regular paper submission: June 1,2014 Short, poster and demo paper submission: July 1,2014 Notification for regular papers: June 30,2014 Notification for short/poster/demo papers:July 15,2014 Camera ready due: July 31,2014

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy

PC Chair Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Yiannis Andreopoulos, University College of London, UK Mehmet Yuce, Monash University, Australia Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Special Tracks Chair Marco Tagliassachi, Politechnique of Milan, Italy Hassan Ghasemzadeh, University of California at Los Angeles, USA

Workshops Chair Miguel Rodrigues, University College of London, UK

Publication Chair Ren Liu, CSIRO, Australia

Publicity Chair Enrico Natalizio, University of Technology of Compiegne, France

Web Chair Raffaele Gravina, University of Calabria, Italy

Conference Coordinator Ruzanna Najaryan, EAI, Italy

______________________________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications http://committees.comsoc.org/tccc/ TCCC Announce: For announcements concerning computer networking and communications. tccc-announce@comsoc.org https://comsoc-listserv.ieee.org/